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Frederick G. Kilgour, Founder of OCLC, Dies at 92

Joy Davidson | 02 August 2006

Frederick G. Kilgour, a librarian and educator who created an international computer library network and database that changed the way people use libraries, died on 31 July 2006. He was 92 years old and had lived since 1990 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.